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Editorial: Neglected tropical diseases: drug targets and potential treatments. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Cell Infect Microbiol
Kaushik S   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Extending the "social": anthropological contributions to the study of viral haemorrhagic fevers. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

Disability as a neglected outcome of neglected tropical diseases: A systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Negl Trop Dis
Barrionuevo CCLB   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
wiley   +1 more source

Metabolomic Biomarkers for the Human Diagnosis of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Soc Bras Med Trop
Maciel JB   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Border tuberculosis: Migrant tuberculosis screenings and the enactment of disease in the Indonesia–Malaysia migration corridor

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Documented migrant workers from Indonesia recruited for work in Malaysia need to undergo tuberculosis screenings before being issued work permits and visas. Centered on the production, circulation, and interpretation of chest X‐ray images, these screenings are shaped in concrete, practical ways by the demands of border control regulations ...
Jonathan Kraemer
wiley   +1 more source

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